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| pydoc is a command similar to Perl's perldoc. You run it on the command line, passing it the name of a module it's able to find, and it shows you something similar to a manpage, created from the docstrings in said module. | pydoc is a command similar to Perl's perldoc. You run it on the command line, passing it the name of a module it's able to find, and it shows you documentation page created from the docstrings in said module. |
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| Within the python interpreter, when you type "help(something)", that interactive manpage-like help is supplied by pydoc. | Within the python interpreter, when you type "help(something)", that interactive help is supplied by pydoc. |
pydoc is a command similar to Perl's perldoc. You run it on the command line, passing it the name of a module it's able to find, and it shows you documentation page created from the docstrings in said module.
Within the python interpreter, when you type "help(something)", that interactive help is supplied by pydoc.